Marry An American, Eh?

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Ladies and gentlemen,
drop your borders! No good American will be left behind!

Now that George W. Bush has been officially elected, single, sexy, American liberals — already a threatened species — will be desperate to escape. These lonely, afraid (did we mention really hot?) progressives will need a safe haven.

You can help. Open your heart, and your home. Marry an American. Legions of Canadians have already pledged to sacrifice their singlehood to save our southern neighbours from four more years of cowboy conservatism.

Michael Steinberg writes

"The Liberal Mirage:
(A Pre-Election Day Rant)"
Michael Steinberg

"By most standards the Bush Presidency has been a humiliating failure. There is one group, though, that has done very well, and it's not the corporate elite. It's American liberals.

Bush has done wonders for their self-esteem. One can almost hear the happy buzz on any liberal blog. All those new voters, the 527 groups, the ads: liberalism is BACK! Not only that: the whole world is cheering them on. In sober moments they can be made to admit that John Kerry was just about their last choice as a Democratic nominee. He is, after all, a man who took his one claim to moral authority and repeatedly trashed it on national television. But wait until the election is over, they assure us. A revitalized liberal movement will take back the ground it's lost since—well, since the Nixon years ended.

Icon of Death...

...composed from one thousand portraits of American soldiers killed in the Iraq war...

The Middlesex Declaration of the European Precariat

We networkers and flextimers of Northern and Southern Europe,
autonomously
gathered at Middlesex University and determined to go beyond
the sclerotizing
European Social Forum, solemnly join minds and bodies in the present declaration of
conflict
against Europe's governments and corporate bureaucracies.

NWD writes:

New World Disorder Magazine

Issue Three Now Online

The furthest fringes of the culture — in its obscure webpages, zines, and samizdat publications, eerie shortwave and streaming audio radio voices that sound like they're coming from the other side (or maybe just a trailer in Lawrence, Kansas) — and the memes they contain, can be used as a magic mirror, a shewstone, Delphic vapors where the future can be divined, where the cultural matrix you will find yourself in the future can be glimpsed now.

In part, that's what the New World Disorder project is attempting to do (the other aspects of this working to be revealed as they manifest): to illuminate some of the weirdest and mind-bending culture from the edge, some of which, following the trajectories of centripetal culture, will come to dominate our lives tomorrow as much as space age religious warriors and mutant pop stars do today.

"How To?"

Tiqqun

How to?

Don't know what I want,

but I know how to get it.

— Sex Pistols, "Anarchy in the UK"

I

TWENTY YEARS. Twenty years of counter-revolution. Of
preventive counter-revolution.

In Italy.

And elsewhere.

Twenty years of a sleep behind security gates, haunted
with security guards. A sleep of the bodies, imposed
by curfew.

Twenty years. The past does not pass. Because war
continues. Ramifies. Extends.

In a global networking of local devices. In an
original calibration of the subjectivities. In a new
superficial peace.

An armed peace

well made to cover the course of an imperceptible
civil war.

rev. terry writes

THE YOUTH NEED A LIBERATION FRONT

Rev. Terry and Crudocrust of the DAAA Collective Modesto CA, Central Valley

From forthcoming and final DAAA Collective zine, NCAA (Northern Californian Anti-Authoritarian) #5.

Every business day a living creature is violated, condemned, coerced, biologically molested, and standardized to the point of misery between the hours 8:00am-3:00pm, preparing for a life full of preparing for life, or what they would tell us will be “our lives”. These creatures are made to feel inferior, and are forced through state sanctioned means of coercion and degradation, to compete and test against each other, creating newly formed class systems that in their earlier years never existed. Like a hunter gather thrust into a world of divide labor and complicated technology, we have be thrust from our world of play and fun into a world where suddenly things were serious. These creatures are children, around the ages 4-18. Chances are a child today has already witness a divorce, addiction, violence, and witnessed some one they love crushed by debt or job loss. Now they will have the experience of hearing that he/she is “not as advanced” or “ hyper active” because they cant sit throe 8+ hours of bland restricted teaching? As the problems increase, so do the pills. Where once a happy child bounced with the joys of young life, now a lifeshell now sits, digesting their drug intake. Some of our eyes are opening, and some of us our seeing that we are not supposed to fit into the mold that they are forcing us into. Schools have us training to be math wizes and track stars, but most of aren’t or don’t want the position if left to our own devices, and we are very, pissed off about it.

Keith Wigdor writes:

"Surrealism in 2004"

Keith Wigdor

My name is Keith Wigdor and I am a Surrealist! Surrealism is a movement that involves all forms of mental activity intended to destroy logic. There is no orthodox tradition when it comes to a Revolution of the Mind, an overwhelming desire to embrace chance, and contempt against hypocrisy most of all! There are no leaders here, there exists no groups, no closed doors. There exists the need to free humanity from its own predispositions toward conformity and enslavement to thought control, to eliminate all rational states of mind, to overcome subordination to the social order and to exorcise all the demons of tradition from one's life.

An anonymous coward writes:

"Eye for an Eye:

Bush Braining Storms"

President Bush addressed the nation today from the oval office, “My fellow Americans, due to the grave threat posed by future hurricanes like Charlie and Frances, I have asked Congress to declare war on hurricanes and they have done so.”

The move comes as a surprise to many. A senior administration official familiar with the matter said, “We had no choice. We face a canny enemy. Hurricane Frances targeted Florida and Ohio and appears to be an attempt to alter the result of November's election.”

Anonymous Comrade writes: For a depressing glimpse of what goes on in the puny brains of the ignorant, hate-filled bigots freely strolling New York City streets with guns and clubs, check out NYPD Rant.